cold cereal for 11-year-old jackie, a splash of joe for 9-year-old joe. ask mom and dad who they will vote for in the caucus and they are less certain. >> i don't think of the candidates there is that guy or that woman that's exciting -- you know, that's excited the electorate out here. >> i'm leaning toward mitt romney mostly because i'm looking for somebody i can trust. >> reporter: across iowa, 41% of likely caucus goers were undecided going into the final weekend according to a des moines register poll. >> we have it narrowed down. >> reporter: indecision was still on the menu today at the drake diner. are you leaning toward anybody at this point? >> not really. i really like gingrich and ron paul has some good ideas. probably going to have to jump in a boat but i don't know which one yet. >> for me it's going to come down to the guy with enough support to win the election this year. >> reporter: with six candidates vying to win their vote and enduring a dizzying mix of messages and positions along the way, deciding is easier said than done. it's not just

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ask joe, okay, how does thing work and why does it seem to be so confusing? is it us or the process? >> i saw that. they literally give you like a post it note and say, write down who you want. they're in the shoe box, and said, this romney or rick perry. let's pass it around. passing around the ballot in san francisco, see you do that. >> yeah, they do. >> someone said, okay, let's vote on it. the representatives of the campaign, it was 3-2 romney. this was the way -- this is how we elect the president. >> why is it taking on such importance or it's the media show? >> media show, totally and completely. >> also a testing ground. the series of debates that were held leading up to this so- called caucus vote. there were people who could not have any impression. >> that's what it was about. the debates. >> and without those debates and without the caucus, rick perry would still be a viable candidate. >> what's the line-up now? michele bachmann? >> newt is a threat at this point. get mitt romney's face. he spent several million dollars of negative ads, not romne

here's joe scarborough asking mitt romney whether he could tell his pro-romney superpac to quit airing anti-gingrich ads. here's mitt romney's response. >> as you probably know, superpacs have to be entirely separate from a campaign and a candidate. i'm not allowed to communicate with a superpac in any way, shape, or form. if we coordinate in any way whatsoever, we go to the big house. >> we go to the big house. my goodness. the lingo. >> chris, that is total nonsense too, as the governor knows. first of all, the federal election committee doesn't send anybody to the big house. at worst, they slap a fine on you. when you're talking about the worst kind of fines that have been slapped on people in the last few years, it's $100,000 or $200,000. that's the price of poker these days. when you have superpacs taking in $10 million, $20 million, what's a $200,000 fine? >> great work. ted koppel, watch him tonight on "rock center" at 10:00 p.m. eastern on nbc. >>> up next, newt gingrich gets a thumbs up. or two thumbs up. stick around for the side show. >>> back to "hardball." now for the side

joe derosa. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> gregg: we were talking about my tremendous weight loss. people ask me about it. i do? how many things we got wrong tonight. i'm sure. but with luckily we have joe derosa who can't count. >> month ho misses you? >> me. >> first the campaign against romney from newt. i don't believe that was one of newt's ads. if it was i'm confused. why would newt use a cat that looks so much like himself. [ laughter ] >> that is what gave it away, grek. >> pete do me a favor. never say the word thrice again. i wanted to throw my coffee at monitor when you said that. >> joe and i go back a long time and push back. but you are absolutely right. it's not my word. i know my writers. pass the buck. it always one word, but thrice is three times. >> while i have you here, you colonization you used the term moonies, it's moonakin. it's terrible. >> what is the difference between that. >> you are going dig the racial hole deeper? >> lauren, you have two rooms in your apartment? >> yeah, three. >> would you like an apartment that has four. we could make it happen laugh. >> by the time you

joe. >> why not, schlossberg? >> your position position is the same as chairman bernanke. when they askedim -- >> is that a different guy than bernanke or do you mean the same guy? >> the same guy. bernanke, is that the same guy? >> different pronunciation. what are the savers to do? he said basically buy stocks. >> yeah, that makes sense and that would help the fed, too, because they love it when the wealth effect helps the economy, don't they? >> exactly. >> we're seeing the dividend effect, here, take place. the last six months those blue chips that are turning out the 4% and 5% returns they're o outperforming the markets. cincinnati financial it's a 6% yield and the company has been outperforming the insurance sector for the last year. i think the market is just starting to uncover the gems and you're seeing investors go to those versus the bond trade we saw in 2010-2011. >> boris, what's on your mind, you want to talk currencies? >> yes, it's interesting. we're coming to a pivot ol weal. we've basically had an easing of credit tensions in europe because everybody thought the greek de

just ask their dad, joe. >> it makes you think about how these things in life happen for a reason. and -- and to cherish it. >> reporter: their fascination with technology and the tablets themselves is the inspiration for an idea that's now gone global. both deacon and gunner are autistic. for joe, communication with his two boys has not always been easy. >> it led me down the journey to the app itself. >> reporter: joe teams up with a local project director and together they designs an ipad application called aeir talk. >> seeing other kids use it, and get a big grin on their face when they hear their parent's voice speaking to them, it's huge. >> to see it change someone's life, it's amazing. >> reporter: people have downloaded aeir talk in canada, europe, asia. the sales continue to soar. joe says his bigsest reward came a couple of months after one of his sons starts using the app. >> i put in a slide that said, i love you, daddy. or i love daddy. we kept working on it. finally, one day he came up out of the blue, gave me a cuddle, a big hug. i said, i love you, bud. i wasn't e

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we'll ask our "morning joe" panel ahead. >>> when we come back here, we'll huddle up around the waterooler to hear kim kardashian get an iowa shoutout from one of the candidates. be right back. forty years ago, he wasn't looking for financial advice. back then he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future. but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement planning for our military, veterans and their families. now more than ever, it's important to get financial advice from people who share your military values. for our free usaa retirement guide, call 877-242-usaa. >>> welcome back to "way too early." live this morning from java joe's from des moines, iowa. the romney campaign, hoping a win in these caucuses will set up something of a one-two punch with new hampshire and straight to the nomination for president. recent history shows back-to-back victories in those early states is a tough thing to pull off. if you want to sound smart today, tell your friends that since 1976, no nonincumbent candidate has scored victories in iowa and new hampshir

. >> that moment recalled joseph welch asking joe mccarthy, have you left no sense of decency? meanwhile, gingrich called mitt out for what he called his pious baloney. mitt romney's pretension of being a man above politics. so the games begun. romney's biggest vulnerability of all may not be his reputation as a flip-flopper, but his years making millions at bain capital. newt gingrich is going for the kill launching a $3.4 million advertising campaign, probably all negative in south carolina, using excerpts from a brutal new documentary about romney's years at bain that point romney as a heartless predator. plus, bill daley has resigned. the obama team is now in full campaign mode. it's all about re-election, not government. and whatever happened to the tea party? they control the house and face a vulnerable president now. and they are about to nominate -- pause -- mitt romney? if conservatives don't rally about some of the other candidates or one of the other candidates, could romney grab this from them? >>> let me finish with romney's new clothes. his absurd -- >>> david gre

. >> that moment recalled joseph welch asking joe mccarthy, have you left no sense of decency? gingrich called mitt out for his bologna. mitt romney's pretension of being a man above politics. so the games begun. romney's biggest vulnerability of all may not be his reputation as a flip-flopper, but his years making millions of the bane capital. newt gingrich is going for the kill launching an advertising campaign probably all negative in south carolina using excerpts from a brutal new documentary about romney's years at bain that point him as a heartless predator. the obama team is in full campaign mode. it's all about reelection, not government. whatever happened to the tea party? they control the house and face a vulnerable president. they are about to nominate, pause, mitt romney? if they don't rally around other candidates, could romney grab this? finally, absurd pretensions to political innocence and right-wing orthodoxy. we start with mitt romney under attack. thank you to this gentleman here. we have amazing clips to show you. from david gregory's debate yesterday, over

next up, vice president joe biden was asked today to weigh in on the newt/mitt battle and was reluctant a prediction. >> charlie, i couldn't figure out the democratic primary or i would have just joined the president early on. i'm not very good at this. the bottom line here is there is no fundamental difference between newt gingrich and governor romney on the things we care about, on the whole issue of how we deal with foreign policy, on how we deal with the domestic policy. this is a republican fight but substantively, i don't see any fundamental difference between the men. >> a long fight on the republican side by the way is good news for the obama/biden ticket. while millions watch the president's state of the union address last night, there were close to 800,000 tweets referencing the speech. here's a fun look at the stream of consciousness from chad ochocinco, wide receiver for the new england patriots. quote, not being rude but if they stand up and clap on every statement obama says, this could go on well over three hours. and later he tweeted, quote, anybody notice the guy over o

. >>> still ahead, joe klein says newt's stamp out poverty plan might have a little bit of merit. we'll ask that. >>> and up next, how rob lowe turned an ordinary afternoon into a fire storm with the indianapolis colts and their fans. we'll explain when we come back. live from charleston, south carolina. >> what did he do? hey guys, breakfast! ♪ [ female announcer ] if whole grain isn't the first ingredient in your breakfast cereal, what is? now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there's more whole grain than any other ingredient. that's why it's listed first on the side. from honey nut cheerios to cinnamon toast crunch to lucky charms, get more whole grain than any other ingredient... without question. just look for the white check. ♪[music plays] when you're responsible for this much of the team... you need a car you can count on. ♪[music plays] ♪ >>> welcome back to the mills house in charleston, south carolina. a beautiful location. we'll be here today and tomorrow. that's loretta. >> is that cgi or is that real? >> no, that's loretta outside. beautiful animal. we don't often

>> well, joe, what they're asking is, did mitt romney in that latest recitation of the arithmetic of jobs gained and lost, did he give a credible abs there? is that as good as he's going to get? >> i think it's credible to the republicans, but newt was headed in a really interesting direction in his comments just before. and it wasn't about the net/net of jobs gained and lost, it was about the private equity capitalism model. which really has kind of overwhelmed our financial system over the last 30 years. and the real questions for romney in the long-term is, are -- is that sort of model, which really aggrandizes executive pay and really opens, you know, iffy companies to ruin, because of the debt that they take on, is that in the best long-term interests of our free market system? >> although i think that the other candidates basically skipped over that tonight. >> right. >> they did not really go after mitt romney on that topic, lawrence. they didn't really go down the line that, you know, barack obama's going to go down. they sort of shied away from that. and i thought mitt romne

annual convention in chicago, and it was there that bill haywood distributed 600 packets of joe hill's ashes and askedn 1917, which they did. and haywood asked that the delegates tell them where they were scattered, and what he learned was they'd been scattered on most of the continents and 47 of the 48 states, all except utah. [laughter] so i'll leave it there, and if anybody has any questions or comments, be happy to hear them and address them. [inaudible conversations] oh, or ri. >> because we're filming, we have to -- you won't be able to hear throughout the store, but we are going to be speaking into this for q&a. >> i just wanted to ask you how the cio figured into the afl and the iww? >> how did the cio figure into it? >> yeah. >> the cio wasn't formed until after hill's execution, until the '30s. the wobblies suffered a serious body blow in 1917. what happened was they were vigorously anti-war and started strikes and slowdowns in war production facilities, especially in the west and copper mines, for instance. and the u.s. government clamped down on them. they raided every iww office and homes

come on, mike, i'm going to have to ask you to -- >> i'm holding back, joe.'m holding back. >> you've got to hold back. you know, willie, the fact is, we're talking about newt here. if i were mitt romney, i'd be very, very careful comparing myself to ronald reagan. this is a man, after all, who was ashamed of ronald reagan when he ran for governor. a man who said he had nothing to do with reaganomics, that he was, in fact, an independent during that time. neither newt gingrich nor mitt romney should compare themselves to ronald reagan. the only people that could compare themselves to ronald reagan maybe would be margaret thatcher and pope john paul ii, everybody else should just be quiet. >> and yet, wes, we look at the polls, let's pause for a second, newt gingrich is up 16 points in the state of florida just in the last week or so. a lot of that, of course, comes off the south carolina bounce. but before we write him off too quickly, this is going to be tight in florida. >> tight in florida. fact is, mitt romney is still continuing to have these unforced er

joe fonzi. >>> on ktvu's facebook page we asked what the 49ers have to do to win on sunday? ramos says, minimize if not eliminate all turnovers and protect alex. >>> and jim kept it simple, he says they need to play the game the way they did against the saints and the first beating they gave the giants in december. >>> doctors medical center in san pablo is getting financial help. the hospital is getting an $8 million loan from gemino health care finance. the company's ceo says the service will help provide service to the contra costa center. >>> on wall street it was the third straight winning week for stocks as they approached a six week high gaining 96 points. the nasdaq was flat dipping one point. >>> and life storm tracker 2. pretty active right now. the heaviest rain getting ready to move on shore right now. we're getting reports throughout the bay area of rainfall accumulations up to two to 3-inches. wind gusts to 45 and the peninsula has had wind gusts to 48 miles per hour. i have reports of accidents in the bridges. i have reports of power outages in the marin areas

joe fonzi. >>> on ktvu's facebook page we asked what the 49ers have to do to win on sunday? ramos says, minimize if not eliminate all turnovers and protect alex. >>> and jim kept it simple, he says they need to play the game the way they did against the saints and the first beating they gave the giants in december. >>> doctors medical center in san pablo is getting financial help. the hospital is getting an $8 million loan from gemino health care finance. the company's ceo says the service will help provide service to the contra costa center. >>> on wall street it was the third straight winning week for stocks as they approached a six week high gaining 96 points. the nasdaq was flat dipping one point. >>> and life storm tracker 2. pretty active right now. the heaviest rain getting ready to move on shore right now. we're getting reports throughout the bay area of rainfall accumulations up to two to 3-inches. wind gusts to 45 and the peninsula has had wind gusts to 48 miles per hour. i have reports of accidents in the bridges. i have reports of power outages in the marin areas

joe? >>> right now montgomery county police are asking for your help finding a missing teenager. the teen was last seen yesterday afternoon in rockville, maryland. 14-year-old anthony alexander escobar was wearing a gray and tan hooded sweatshirt and sweat pants at the time. he was 5'9" and weighs 140 pounds. anyone with information is asked to call montgomery county police at 301-279-8000. >>> metro riders should expect delays this weekend. crews will be fixing the tracks on 4 of the 5 lines. as a result, trains will be single tracking. on the red line trains will single track between dupont circle and friendship heights as well as between takoma and forest glen stations. on the blue and orange, trains will single track between smithsonian and eastern market stations. on the green line, trains will single track between georgia avenue-petworth, and the fort totten stations. works will begin tonight and continue through sunday night. everything is expected to be back to normal on the blue and orange lines when metro opens 25 minutes from now. riders saw major delays yesterday afte

joe montana. >> when people ask me what could i see in him, i wish i could have seen it sooner. but with him, he's an unbelievable competitor. >> that's tom martinez who worked with brady since junior high school. the former coach is battling life-threatening kidney conditions. we interviewed him at his home. he's been personal quarterback coach and mentor to brady. throughout his coaching career, martinez has employed a unique teaching tool that employs the telephone. >> i gave a quarter to the guys i worked with and i said if you need help, if you have any information that's lacking in what we went through and you may not be aware of that that you start to do it, give me a call and here's the quarter. i will never call you, you have to call me. tom brady calls all the time. >> reporter: brady is now calling for donors to help his coach through the massachusetts-based organization matching donors. assisting people in need of organ transplants. as a quarterback, being one of the greatest of all time is constantly a conversation, because brady and winning have been so synonymous.

ask you this. i know you spoke to scott paterno, joe paterno's son. what did he say?> erin, he told me his father died in a way that he wishes he has the courage to die that way when his time comes. he said he was completely at peace with his life. he told his children, just take care of your mother. he kept saying that over and over again. that you know everything he has accomplished, in his life, he has done with his wife by his side and really moving forward, they're focused on their mom. they're concerned about her, but they're really looking forward to celebrating joe paterno's life and legacy in the coming days at a campus memorial service on thursday. >> is there any indication from your reporting on this as to whether joe paterno's death will impact the case against sandusky since obviously he was the one that mike mcqueary told that he saw jerry sandusky abusing the boy in the shower. >> it's a good question. a lot of people are asking that now. what legal experts are telling me is that joe paterno's statements would have been a dramatic moment in court for s

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